1 00:00:01,002 --> 00:00:03,046 The comic is the comic, and the show is the show, 2 00:00:03,129 --> 00:00:05,090 and you don't want to worry about that too much. 3 00:00:05,173 --> 00:00:06,633 Just make it your own. 4 00:00:06,716 --> 00:00:08,635 But don't fuck it up, Dom. 5 00:00:08,718 --> 00:00:11,096 [GRUNTING] 6 00:00:12,222 --> 00:00:13,848 [GRUNTING] 7 00:00:16,309 --> 00:00:18,937 [SHOUTS, GROWLS] 8 00:00:19,854 --> 00:00:22,982 Open my heart to you. 9 00:00:23,066 --> 00:00:24,401 Ah! 10 00:00:24,484 --> 00:00:26,361 ENNIS: I wrote Preacher 20 years ago. 11 00:00:26,444 --> 00:00:29,656 It's been those nine or six books on the shelf. 12 00:00:29,739 --> 00:00:30,865 And that's not going to change. 13 00:00:30,949 --> 00:00:32,617 So for me it's very, very interesting 14 00:00:32,701 --> 00:00:33,952 to see someone come along 15 00:00:34,035 --> 00:00:35,954 and take a different angle on it. 16 00:00:36,037 --> 00:00:37,622 - [BONE SNAP] - [PEOPLE GASPING] 17 00:00:37,706 --> 00:00:39,624 GOLDBERG: Preacher is something that 18 00:00:39,708 --> 00:00:41,918 I never even dreamed of thinking of trying to make 19 00:00:42,001 --> 00:00:44,295 until I already could maybe make stuff. 20 00:00:44,379 --> 00:00:47,132 Then I tried for a long time and got rejected by everybody. 21 00:00:47,215 --> 00:00:48,258 Action! 22 00:00:48,341 --> 00:00:49,300 Oh! 23 00:00:49,384 --> 00:00:50,385 We didn't get the rights, 24 00:00:50,468 --> 00:00:51,970 and other people were trying to make it, 25 00:00:52,053 --> 00:00:54,681 and we've been pretty much trying for the last 10 years, 26 00:00:54,764 --> 00:00:56,850 and we get to be the guys to ruin it. 27 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:01,938 ENNIS: Steve Dylan, the artist and I, 28 00:01:02,021 --> 00:01:05,900 we'd seen an attempt to make it as an independent film, fail, 29 00:01:05,984 --> 00:01:08,319 an HBO show, fail. 30 00:01:08,403 --> 00:01:10,864 Bigger budget film, fail. 31 00:01:10,947 --> 00:01:13,742 And at that time I think we quite cynically decided 32 00:01:13,825 --> 00:01:15,326 that it was unfilmable. 33 00:01:15,410 --> 00:01:17,871 Along came Seth and Evan to prove us wrong. 34 00:01:17,954 --> 00:01:19,247 MAN: Cut! 35 00:01:20,290 --> 00:01:21,791 MABE: Literally 10 years ago, 36 00:01:21,875 --> 00:01:25,336 Seth handed me the copy of Preacher book one, 37 00:01:25,420 --> 00:01:29,090 and he said, "You have to read this. 38 00:01:29,174 --> 00:01:31,050 It's the best comic ever." 39 00:01:32,010 --> 00:01:33,386 And his name 40 00:01:33,470 --> 00:01:35,513 is the Word of God! 41 00:01:35,597 --> 00:01:37,515 [PEOPLE CHATTERING, SCREAMING] 42 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:38,391 [SCREAMS] 43 00:01:41,227 --> 00:01:44,105 Evan's brother gave him the comic 44 00:01:44,189 --> 00:01:46,816 when he was little, like really little, 45 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:48,735 and said, "This book will change your life." 46 00:01:49,611 --> 00:01:52,280 I am the chosen one. 47 00:01:52,363 --> 00:01:54,199 [PEOPLE GASPING] 48 00:01:54,282 --> 00:01:56,618 CATLIN: That was a great alchemy between Seth and Evan and myself 49 00:01:56,701 --> 00:01:58,870 because they're huge fan boys of the comics, 50 00:01:58,953 --> 00:02:01,664 knew it backwards and forwards, and I did not know it. 51 00:02:01,748 --> 00:02:02,540 So I was like, 52 00:02:02,624 --> 00:02:04,459 "Well, guys, it's got to work on this level. 53 00:02:04,542 --> 00:02:05,502 I've never seen this, 54 00:02:05,585 --> 00:02:07,545 I don't know who this person is." 55 00:02:07,629 --> 00:02:09,005 Once you focus on like, 56 00:02:09,088 --> 00:02:10,924 how do we setup these characters, 57 00:02:11,007 --> 00:02:12,675 then it became very filmable. 58 00:02:12,759 --> 00:02:15,386 Evening, Padre. 59 00:02:15,470 --> 00:02:16,888 What's the matter with you? 60 00:02:16,971 --> 00:02:19,808 Someone beat you up with a dark and handsome stick or something? 61 00:02:22,227 --> 00:02:24,395 Dominic's character by far is the hardest thing though, 62 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:27,065 because he's like a Clint Eastwood kind of cowboy. 63 00:02:27,148 --> 00:02:28,650 And the more we do it, the more we realize like, 64 00:02:28,733 --> 00:02:32,195 "You only get to say, like, 10 words every 20 minutes. 65 00:02:32,278 --> 00:02:33,988 You better say them really well." 66 00:02:34,572 --> 00:02:36,449 I'm still learning lots about Jesse Custer, 67 00:02:36,533 --> 00:02:39,244 and, you know, however much I read the comics, 68 00:02:39,327 --> 00:02:41,120 which I get a great deal from, 69 00:02:41,204 --> 00:02:42,872 I'm still learning, as are the writers, 70 00:02:42,956 --> 00:02:43,998 where is this character going? 71 00:02:44,082 --> 00:02:45,291 What's he going to become? 72 00:02:45,375 --> 00:02:47,001 Who is he trying to be? 73 00:02:47,085 --> 00:02:48,837 It's like smacking his hands out of the way, 74 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,256 hitting him in the face, you know. It's like amusing. 75 00:02:51,339 --> 00:02:52,257 Seth and Evan just saying, 76 00:02:52,340 --> 00:02:54,133 "Just really, really-- just try one. 77 00:02:54,217 --> 00:02:56,010 Because you're so kind of focused in fighting." 78 00:02:56,094 --> 00:02:58,555 So you're trying to look scary, strong, 79 00:02:58,638 --> 00:03:00,431 and actually he said, "Don't do any of that." 80 00:03:00,515 --> 00:03:02,600 Having learnt the choreography of the fight, 81 00:03:02,684 --> 00:03:04,477 then just smile your way through it." 82 00:03:04,561 --> 00:03:07,438 You could, like, literally, laugh, like, at how easy it is. 83 00:03:07,522 --> 00:03:09,148 [GRUNTING] 84 00:03:15,613 --> 00:03:17,824 Jesse loves every minute of it. 85 00:03:17,907 --> 00:03:20,076 - [GRUNTING] - [GASPING] 86 00:03:21,077 --> 00:03:23,162 Hopefully, it plays as a very dark character, 87 00:03:23,246 --> 00:03:25,832 revealing that this guy is the most dangerous man. 88 00:03:25,915 --> 00:03:28,793 Jesse is a hard character to get, 89 00:03:28,877 --> 00:03:31,170 mostly because he's an anachronism. 90 00:03:31,254 --> 00:03:34,007 He really belongs somewhere in the 1870's, 91 00:03:34,090 --> 00:03:37,093 walking down to the O.K. Corral with a pistol on his hip, 92 00:03:37,176 --> 00:03:38,553 ready for a gun fight. 93 00:03:38,636 --> 00:03:42,724 Eugene told me that he left you some messages. 94 00:03:42,807 --> 00:03:44,475 The characters are what made us think 95 00:03:44,559 --> 00:03:46,769 it would be a good TV show more than anything. 96 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:51,691 Once we had Joel and Ruth and Dominic 97 00:03:51,774 --> 00:03:54,068 and so many of these other great actors, 98 00:03:54,152 --> 00:03:56,112 it really felt like this is the world of Preacher. 99 00:03:56,195 --> 00:03:57,697 [ENGINE REVVING] 100 00:03:57,780 --> 00:03:59,532 [GUNSHOT] 101 00:03:59,616 --> 00:04:02,160 [GRUNTING] 102 00:04:02,243 --> 00:04:03,870 GOLDBERG: Tulip has a pretty good intro in the comics. 103 00:04:03,953 --> 00:04:05,496 She's trying to kill a guy and she misses 104 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:08,333 and shoots a guy's jaw off and is shocked. 105 00:04:08,416 --> 00:04:09,709 But we've altered her character a bit. 106 00:04:16,674 --> 00:04:18,509 Awesome! 107 00:04:18,593 --> 00:04:20,011 So awesome! 108 00:04:20,094 --> 00:04:21,804 She discovers that there's two kids 109 00:04:21,888 --> 00:04:22,805 that watched the whole thing. 110 00:04:22,889 --> 00:04:25,350 So she compensates for that by making it 111 00:04:25,433 --> 00:04:27,310 into a sort of a play world for them. 112 00:04:30,271 --> 00:04:31,230 [TRUNK CLOSES] 113 00:04:31,314 --> 00:04:33,232 Who likes arts and crafts? 114 00:04:34,025 --> 00:04:35,485 I think she's described in the script as like 115 00:04:35,568 --> 00:04:37,278 the coolest babysitter ever. 116 00:04:37,362 --> 00:04:38,571 MAN: Action. 117 00:04:38,655 --> 00:04:40,323 - So more bad guys are coming? - Mm-hmm. 118 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:42,200 Coming to kill you? 119 00:04:42,283 --> 00:04:43,952 Well, they're going to try. 120 00:04:44,035 --> 00:04:47,413 Ruth creates a bazooka out of peach cans and moonshine, 121 00:04:47,497 --> 00:04:49,165 which is actually one of the many terrible things 122 00:04:49,248 --> 00:04:50,291 you can see on the Internet. 123 00:04:50,375 --> 00:04:52,293 Who wants to play hide-and-go-seek? 124 00:04:52,877 --> 00:04:55,004 [AIRPLANE WHOOSHING] 125 00:04:55,088 --> 00:04:58,299 [GILGUN] This is the plane set we've built for the fight scene, 126 00:04:58,383 --> 00:04:59,759 basically what's happened is 127 00:04:59,842 --> 00:05:01,761 he's met a bunch of hedge funders-- 128 00:05:01,844 --> 00:05:03,471 just smashed that guy in the head with a bong... 129 00:05:03,554 --> 00:05:04,889 [GRUNTS] 130 00:05:04,973 --> 00:05:05,932 ...five times. 131 00:05:11,312 --> 00:05:14,440 As for Joe, obviously born to play Cassidy, 132 00:05:14,524 --> 00:05:18,361 not a huge leap, I'm guessing. 133 00:05:19,112 --> 00:05:21,030 Go to hell, abomination. 134 00:05:22,615 --> 00:05:24,450 When will you idiots learn, huh? 135 00:05:24,534 --> 00:05:25,868 It's embarrassing. 136 00:05:25,952 --> 00:05:26,828 Man: Cut! 137 00:05:28,955 --> 00:05:32,041 - Like he's more of a human... - Teapot, yeah. 138 00:05:32,542 --> 00:05:33,751 Tip me up and pour me out. 139 00:05:33,835 --> 00:05:34,711 Push it forward. 140 00:05:34,794 --> 00:05:35,920 Yeah. 141 00:05:36,004 --> 00:05:37,588 Nice, oh there we go! 142 00:05:37,672 --> 00:05:39,465 We're saying he should take the shades off the pilot, 143 00:05:39,549 --> 00:05:42,593 like after he fills the bottle. 144 00:05:42,677 --> 00:05:44,470 The shades were my idea, 145 00:05:44,554 --> 00:05:46,681 right, you just took credit for my shade moment, 146 00:05:46,764 --> 00:05:47,640 I'm fuming. 147 00:05:47,724 --> 00:05:48,599 That was awesome over there. 148 00:05:48,683 --> 00:05:49,934 Yeah, great. 149 00:05:50,018 --> 00:05:51,019 Woo! 150 00:05:51,102 --> 00:05:53,771 [SCREAMING] 151 00:05:53,855 --> 00:05:55,356 You don't see this side of vampires. 152 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,234 Usually vampires are quite cool, cultured, 153 00:05:58,317 --> 00:06:00,194 they've been alive for a long, long time. 154 00:06:00,278 --> 00:06:02,405 You could have had children that have died. 155 00:06:02,488 --> 00:06:04,282 Everybody leaves him because they die. 156 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:09,829 There was quite a few builds on this show 157 00:06:09,912 --> 00:06:11,873 that there's typically not in a pilot. 158 00:06:11,956 --> 00:06:15,460 The plane is a huge build going to worlds like Nairobi. 159 00:06:15,543 --> 00:06:18,212 And we had over 40 locations. 160 00:06:19,047 --> 00:06:23,760 Cable TV has evolved only recently to the point 161 00:06:23,843 --> 00:06:27,180 that it can financially and stylistically 162 00:06:27,263 --> 00:06:28,264 support a show like this. 163 00:06:31,601 --> 00:06:33,686 You couldn't have turned it into a film. 164 00:06:33,770 --> 00:06:34,729 There's too much in it. 165 00:06:34,812 --> 00:06:37,190 Even a two-and-a-half-hour, three-hour screenplay 166 00:06:37,273 --> 00:06:39,817 would be completely overloaded with bizarre characters 167 00:06:39,901 --> 00:06:42,028 over-the-top situations. 168 00:06:42,111 --> 00:06:45,615 But a TV show does give you that room to breathe. 169 00:06:45,698 --> 00:06:46,616 CATLIN: In regards to the comics, 170 00:06:46,699 --> 00:06:48,451 it jumps from one genre to the next. 171 00:06:48,534 --> 00:06:51,120 It's a big challenge of this show, because it is a drama, 172 00:06:51,204 --> 00:06:53,331 it's a crime thriller. 173 00:06:53,414 --> 00:06:56,918 RUTH: Don't worry, father, I ain't going to shoot you. 174 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:59,045 It's a dark comedy. 175 00:06:59,128 --> 00:07:01,255 Mrs. Root, how are you tonight? 176 00:07:02,673 --> 00:07:05,051 It's a martial arts movie. 177 00:07:05,134 --> 00:07:06,135 MAN: Action! 178 00:07:06,219 --> 00:07:07,261 [GRUNTING] 179 00:07:12,266 --> 00:07:13,226 Road trip. 180 00:07:13,768 --> 00:07:15,353 - [GUNSHOT] - [TIRES SCREECHING] 181 00:07:15,436 --> 00:07:16,395 Satire. 182 00:07:16,479 --> 00:07:18,064 I just read the Japanese 183 00:07:18,147 --> 00:07:20,108 let a fellow marry his own pillow. 184 00:07:20,191 --> 00:07:22,151 That's a big challenge for all of us as writers, 185 00:07:22,235 --> 00:07:24,445 and for actors, for directors, everyone. 186 00:07:24,529 --> 00:07:25,613 It's pretty crazy a bit. 187 00:07:25,696 --> 00:07:27,406 I can't believe they're letting us make it.